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Abusing Bleeding Edge Web Standards For AppSec Glory
Through cooperation between browser vendors and standards bodies in the recent past, numerous standards have been created to enforce stronger client-side control for web applications. As web appsec practitioners continue to shift from mitigating vulnerabilities to implementing proactive controls, each new standard adds another layer of defense for attack patterns previously accepted as risks.
With the most basic controls complete, attention is shifting toward mitigating more complex threats. As a result of the drive to control for these threats client-side, standards such as SubResource Integrity (SRI), Content Security Policy (CSP), and HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) carry larger implementation risks than others such as HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS). Builders supporting legacy applications actively make trade-offs between implementing the latest standards versus accepting risks simply because of the increased risks newer web standards pose.
In this talk, we'll strictly explore the risks posed by SRI, CSP, and HPKP; demonstrate effective mitigation strategies and compromises which may make these standards more accessible to builders and defenders supporting legacy applications; as well as examine emergent properties of standards such as HPKP to cover previously unforeseen scenarios.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When U2 guitarist The Edge announced plans to build a cluster of mansions overlooking the Pacific Ocean, he promised the homes would look like nothing more than scattered leaves on the ridgeline and boast the country's most sought-after green building seal.
Environmental groups, state and federal officials and even some neighbors have not been sold. The green designs are great, they said, but just don't build your houses in one of the most environmentally sensitive areas in Southern California.
Critics say the proposed project in ocean-front Malibu is an example of how developers can follow the rules, but still violate the spirit of the national green building program called the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED.
While many acknowledge the program, is a step in the right direction, critics say dressing up homes, office buildings and hotels in a green veneer gives short shrift to one of the most critical elements of all: whether anything should be built there.
"You can have a really environmental project that scores incredibly well on LEED but if it's placed in a pristine area is it truly an environmental project?" said Mark Gold, executive director of Heal the Bay, which opposes the project.
"Most people in the environmental community would say `No' and that's something that LEED need to take into greater consideration."
The Green Building Council, which oversees LEED, says the system is meant to be flexible. Whether or not a building or home should be built in a certain area is primarily left up to local and state authorities.
It's a balancing act," said Nate Kredich, the nonprofit's vice president of residential market development, who disagrees with the idea that they don't give enough weight to siting.
"I think for the most part we have folks fairly comfortable that site selection is ultimately not something that should prohibit someone from building a LEED home," Kredich said. "That's not our area."
LEED certification has become the benchmark for green design, allowing developers to get their plans processed faster in some cities. It also all but ensures positive publicity for a project.
The National Parks Service, which manages land near The Edge's project, and conservation groups have seized on what they see as a major flaw in the coveted green building system.
They say out of a possible 136 points used to determine a home's LEED rating, only 10 percent touch on where it is built.
The Edge, whose real name is David Evans, and his partners want to build five homes averaging 10,500-square-feet each on a 156-acre site in the Santa Monica Mountains. The homes will feature native landscaping, electric vehicle charging, solar panels and their own wastewater treatment. The plan also calls for an access road up the mountain.
Evans was not available for comment, but his website promoting the project said most of the land will remain untouched and that the "sustainable homes will prevent inappropriate designs from being built on any of these legal home sites in the future."
"From the beginning the intention was to achieve a benchmark for sustainable design in a sensitive area," the site said.
In February, staff recommended the California Coastal Commission reject the proposal in part because of a series concerns over what kind of damage the development would do to the expansive hillside which currently features little more than chaparral and native grasses. The report suggested that one to three homes might be more appropriate for such a site.
The commission is expected to take up the matter in April or June. The panel does not have to adopt staff's recommendation.
Commission Chair Sara Wan declined to comment on the project itself but said the LEED system does not make much of a distinction between a project sited in a city as opposed to an important habitat area.
"If you get credit for a good roof you can take out a nice habitat," Wan said. "A house should be looked at totally differently — not just a few points — when it's sited in an urban setting, agricultural setting or pristine habitat setting. Fragmentation, impacts to biodiversity, views — all of these factors are really not weighed appropriately."
The commission has already had one brush with a massive project touting its green certification. Two years ago, a developer proposed the 341-unit Monterey Bay Shores EcoResort on sand dunes.
Developer Ed Ghandour claimed it would be the greenest development ever built, with platinum certification. Ocean breezes would cool the hotel, wind turbines and solar panels would produce electricity and five acres of living roofs would support native species.
The panel killed the project, saying it didn't have an adequate water supply and or appropriately address coastal erosion, for example.
The LEED standards were created in 2000 and are overseen by the Green Building Council, a nonprofit trade organization made up of more than 18,500 member organizations from all aspects of the building industry who annually vote on changes to the system.
In the case of homes, the points are divided among a variety of categories that cover materials, water efficiency and landscaping, with the largest number of points going to energy efficiency.
Kredich said LEED tries to discourage construction in sensitive areas.
The system requires more points for a larger project such as the one The Edge wants to build and without the points related to appropriate siting, it could be "a tall order for a project aspiring for Gold certification," he said.
Greg Reitz, a principle with REthink Development, who is the project's green building consultant, agreed that it will be a challenge especially since they're not likely to get any of the points awarded for responsible siting.
Reitz said they are going to use native landscaping to reduce water usage, excavated soil in the structural material and are aiming not to have any erosion or runoff during construction.
"We pretty much have to do just about everything right according to LEED," he said.
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Somebody tell this guy to go home and do his "green project" over there. Malibu has no affection for him or his "plans"….
Of Course it will be built, rich hypocrites like the EDGE, (what a stupid name for an adult) will use his vast wealth to buy off whoever has final say. Land in Malibu has always been bought and sold to the highest bidder with the best lawyers. The phony coast development board and all the the other agencies are just there to make it more expensive.
I am EDGE, how dare you stand in the way of my empire? My music has made billions, I am without a doubt the most powerful musician in the world. As a sign of my humility, I promise to always wear a silly beanie made of organic cotton, and I promise the ridiculously massive compound will be painted in soothing earth tones. Also, I will tip the piano player at Geoffreys.
In this way, you will know the greatness of EDGE! HEAR ME MALIBU, I OWN YOUR *asterisk*!

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On the Move — Literally
Moving a house is hard enough, but moving a church? That's what one parish in Georgia plans on doing.
NORCROSS, Ga. — All kinds of things happen to churches that close: If they're not torn down they might be sold to different congregations or be turned into other types of facilities.
In Buffalo, N.Y., a historic church is being preserved in an unusual way — it's being moved to an area of the country and an archdiocese where the Catholic population is expanding rapidly and booming with well over 900,000 Catholics.
If the plan works, St. Gerard's will be the largest building in the United States ever taken down, moved and reconstructed.
The move to the Atlanta suburb of Norcross, Ga. — 900 miles away — is more than an engineering feat. It's a testimony to preserving a magnificent church and using it for its original purpose: the worship of God.
Mary Our Queen Catholic Church in Norcross was founded in 1994 with 70 families. It now has 750 families but still uses its small, temporary church building.
Parishioners raised capital toward constructing a much larger permanent edifice. Desiring a traditional style that would incorporate elements saved from other churches, they had a prominent architect design it.
"Then we saw pictures of St. Gerard's in the Buffalo Diocese," said Father David Dye, pastor of Mary Our Queen. "It looked like the building the architect drew."
Bill Harrison of Harrison Design Associates agreed.
St. Gerard's, which was closed in 2008, is a one-third scale of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, one of Rome's four major basilicas. The church is 144 feet long, 83 feet wide and 75 feet high. The interior's 12 solid granite columns are 30 feet high and 3 feet in diameter.
Father Dye and Harrison traveled to Buffalo for a firsthand look at the church, which is named after 11th-century St. Gerard Sagredo, the first bishop of Hungary.
When Father Dye stepped inside, his eyes went immediately to the dome in the sanctuary, "and there's the crowning of Mary," filling the dome.
Father Dye, because of his parish's name, took it as a sign.
He proposed buying the church and moving it to Georgia.
"I was totally amazed, thinking this was a bizarre idea," recalled St. Gerard's last pastor, Father Francis Mazur. "But when Father Dye walked into the sanctuary and saw Mary, Our Queen in the dome, he knew this was the building. I'm happy the faith of the founders and the testimony of the people who built that great church will live on 900 miles south. It's a testimony of the strength of our Catholic faith, and our people here have supported this move enthusiastically."
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Father Mazur describes the Italian Renaissance edifice, built of Indiana limestone in 1911, as "absolutely gorgeous." It has an interior of travertine marble, ornate plasterwork, gleaming coffered ceilings, and 46 exceptional stained-glass windows. Along the walls the medallion portraits of the popes through Paul VI are depicted just as they are in St. Paul's in Rome.
"This church is beautifully chaste and pure in its designs," said Father Dye. "It's very ornate, very Catholic, yet very simple."
"We are preserving a building instead of knocking it down," said Father Mazur. "People will still be able to reverence the sacred art and architecture in another place."
Calculations showed that it would cost an estimated $40 million or more to build the new church according to the architect's similar design, but to move and reconstruct this church would be around $15 million, considerably less cost.
When former St. Gerard parishioner and trustee Richard Ciezki heard St. Gerard's would be saved, he first wondered if he was hearing right, then had "immediately a heart filled with joy that the church would be able to be used for the purpose it was originally built for," he said, noting the faith and work of the German immigrants who built it.
Mary Our Queen parishioners like Mike Hickey, who with his wife, Susan, was a founding parishioner, were equally enthusiastic.
"It's a masterpiece that needs to be saved," Hickey said after visiting the church in Buffalo. "There was great detail attended to in building that church, and there's no way to re-create it now. Even the acoustics are a choirmaster's dream."
Preservationists' Advice
According to Kevin Keenan, spokesman for the Buffalo Diocese, the church was closed as a result of diocesan-wide parish reorganization. Only 100 families were still in the parish, and other parishes were within walking distance in the neighborhood.
While 51 closed churches were already sold, no one had shown interest in St. Gerard's. Then, because of the unique offer to buy and move the church to Georgia, Keenan said the diocese first had long, positive conversations with the organization Preservation Buffalo Niagara to assure them this would be "preservation by relocation." The preservationists are attached to all the old buildings in the city and like to keep buildings where they are to preserve historic Buffalo.
"We did an awful lot of legwork before this was even announced," said Keenan. They even talked with government leaders from city to state levels.
Only a very small number of people in the preservation community opposed the move, Keenan pointed out. Preservation Buffalo Niagara even made recommendations on how to make sure the church survives the move.
As for the receiving locale, there has been no opposition in Georgia. "Everyone is very intrigued and excited to see this begin," said Angie Janesheski, an associate on the architectural team at Harrison Design Associates.
"They see the picture: the glory and beauty of the church, the concept of the church as house of God related to the Incarnation," noted Father Dye. "They see the glory in the stained-glass windows, in the statues and the altars. People are really hungry for that depth of the church — a church that lasts through time and space."
How to Move It
The $2.7 million that Mary Our Queen parish had already raised for a new edifice is now allocated to buying and moving St. Gerard's. Janesheski explained that, in accordance with diocesan practices, Atlanta's diocesan Catholic Construction Services has set a fundraising goal of $16 million to cover the purchase, the move and the reconstruction in Norcross. Any surplus would become an endowment to maintain the church.
Keenan said the church will be sold at market value but declined to be specific because contracts have not been finalized. Proceeds of the sale would go to Blessed Trinity Church, where St. Gerard's parishioners now belong.
The lot — approximately 19,000 square feet — will be sold separately, and the likely buyer is Gerard Place, a transitional shelter for homeless single-parent families located in the old convent next door to St. Gerard's that is operated by women religious of Buffalo. Keenan said it would likely be turned into green space.
Once moved to Norcross, St. Gerard's will be reassembled on what everyone calls the "beautiful site" Mary Our Queen parish already occupies — 15 acres of greens and trees. Since the parcel is already zoned for the church's use, there are no conflicts and no special needs to be met at this point.
Harrison Design and the parish are exploring the logistics and modes of transportation to move St. Gerard's the 900 miles. Two main ones are via truck and train.
"The church itself was put together in parts and pieces," said Janesheski. "It will be taken apart in reverse, like a giant puzzle. We will be providing the blueprint putting the puzzle together." The wide array of pieces includes delicate stained glass and giant pieces of stone. The church will sit on a new foundation and superstructure and will be fitted with all updates too.
The current temporary building will become a parish hall.
The first relocation step began at Easter: The nearly 8-foot-tall marble statue of St. Gerard and the paschal candle arrived from Buffalo to be blessed in Atlanta by Archbishop Wilton Gregory.
On Aug. 22, feast of the Queenship of Mary, 20 former St. Gerard parishioners arrived at the Norcross parish for a "Passing of the Key" ceremony at Sunday Mass.
Father Mazur handed over the key to St. Gerard's while others presented a crucifix from the church. A recording of the bells in St. Gerard's tall tower played before and after Mass.
"We were taking them not only the spirit of the original builders of the church, but the spirit of the people who last used the church," said Ciezki.
Plans call for starting to move the limestone blocks before the end of the year, but at this point, it's a matter of fundraising to reach the goal.
The timing is important. Some stained glass needs looking after, and there is water damage to some areas of plaster.
"The longer it sits, the more the urgency," Janesheski said. "We would love to move it as soon as possible."
People across the country have shown interest in helping this unique project, according to Father Dye. Critical eyes are watching the feasibility, because with the population shifts in recent decades, communities booming with new Catholics would like to see beautiful buildings moved rather than deteriorate and lost.
Hickey agreed. He's hopeful that with the success of this move, northern dioceses will be able to offer additional buildings to those parts of the country that need them.
Father Dye likens this project to God asking and Moses not knowing what he was getting into.
"It's a pilgrimage. We're wandering the desert to reach the Promised Land," he said. "God's in charge. … I may have decided to do it, but I really think God wants it to be done."
Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen is based in Trumbull, Connecticut.
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Isham & Doering have written a series of papers exploring how to ground physics in topoi. Now the internal logic of topoi is higher order typed intuitionistic logic. In their theory what role is played by intuitionistic logic? What are the types in their theory?
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I'm proud to say I'm a fan of Duke basketball. It started when Christian Laettner hit the last shot in the best game in college basketball history. I like seeing Duke succeed, and I like seeing Duke players do well in the NBA (which is not always the case). So, with both of those motivations in mind, Gerald Henderson should stay at Duke for his senior year. As usual, a list will help us figure out why.
1. His NBA Stock
Henderson has NBA athleticism. The man can hop like few people I've seen at his height. This year it was fun to see some of his skills develop, specifically his jump shot. Also, he developed an ability to take games over this year, largely in part to not needing to depend on his penetration. Staying another year will allow him to improve those parts of his game and raise his stock as a draft pick.
2. Duke Would be Awesome
The Blue Devils will be in good shape next year with scoreres Kyle Singler, Jon Scheyer, Nolan Smith, Lance Thomas, Elliott Williams, and two big incoming freshmen in Ryan Kelly (who is 6'10" and won the McDonalds 3-Point Contest) and Mason Plumlee. If Henderson stays, Duke could run away from the rest of the ACC. They are only losing Greg Paulus and David McClure, which is okay by me. The only thing that could keep them from winning the ACC is if Wake's big 3 decide to come back.
3. National Championship
If Henderson decides to listen to my advice and come back to Duke, they could win a national championship. It has been a few years since Duke has been to the Final Four, and I hope Henderson took notice of what happened at UNC this year. A bunch of upper-classmen came back to win and, indeed, they did.
If you're reading this Mr. Henderson, I advise you to come back to Duke for one last hoorah.


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Wyo. Supreme Court To Decide Term Limits
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Supreme Court has agreed to decide Secretary of State Max Maxfield's lawsuit challenging term limits for statewide elected officials.
Chief Justice Marilyn S. Kite on Tuesday signed a notice that the court will decide whether the state law setting term limits for statewide elected officials is constitutional and enforceable. District Judge Thomas C. Campbell of Cheyenne earlier asked the high court to resolve the question.
Maxfield is now in his second four-year term as secretary of state. He filed a lawsuit last fall as a private citizen challenging the law that sets term limits for statewide elected officials.
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that term limits were unconstitutional in regard to state legislators. The ruling came in response to a legal challenge by two state lawmakers.


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This month your challenge is to recreate an existing movie poster with the SP-Studio!
It is very important that you provide a link to the original poster in the discription of your image so we can compare them and see it is not just made up. If I cannot find the source you will be disqualified, so please remember this part of the rules.
This topic might be difficult, so please see it as what it is: just for fun :). Your SP-Studio picture might look very difficult from the original poster, even if you try your best. That's no reason to be sad. Be creative and try to recreate the most iconic parts of the poster. For example you do not need to include the movie title if you need text tool otherwise.
You can pick any movie poster you want. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference, so DVD/BR cover count as well. You should prefer official artworks, but if you really want to do a fan made poster you are allowed to do so as well.
Here are some examples of how different movie posters can look like:
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A fine and pleasant New Year's Eve to you all, Arsians! Before we get too deep into the sauce here at Dealmaster Central, I, The Dealmaster Himself, want to get this post out to you all so that you can enter 2013 armed with powerful savings!
Our partners at LogicBuy had originally sent over a Groupon deal for a Pentax Q, but it unfortunately sold out. They have instead substituted a Sony Alpha Nex-F3K mirrorless interchangeable-lens kit, with a pair of lenses (one 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom and one 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 zoom). This is a neat way to dip your toes into more advanced photography than you get with just a little point-n-shoot, without having to commit the better part of a thousand bucks for a DSLR.
If photography isn't your thing, we're still ringing in the New Year with our usual assortment of deals, including a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro for about $0.90/GB. There's also a good deal on a Garmin Forerunner 110 GPS watch, if you want some help with that New Year's Resolution to start running (seriously, I have a Forerunner, and gamifying my jogging with charts and graphs is the only thing that got me to do it!).
Here's hoping that everyone stays safe this evening. Happy New Year!
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Follow-up Study Shows the Anti-inflammatory Drug Cuts Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
Charlene Laino
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
July 16, 2009 (Vienna, Austria) -- Could it be that anti-inflammatory drugs such as NSAIDs can help prevent Alzheimer's disease after all?
That's the suggestion from a follow-up analysis of the same study that concluded that neither naproxen nor Celebrex preserves mental function.
NSAIDs -- nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs -- include ibuprofen (brands include Advil and Motrin), naproxen (brands include Aleve), and Celebrex. Studies that compare people with Alzheimer's disease to people who don't have Alzheimer's disease have often shown that those without Alzheimer's are more likely to be long-term NSAID users.
That led to the large Alzheimer's Disease Anti-inflammatory Prevention Trial, in which healthy people were randomly assigned to take naproxen, Celebrex, or a placebo. The goal was to determine if taking NSAIDs could prevent Alzheimer's. Studies like this -- which compare active treatment to placebo and determine disease outcome -- are the only way to show whether a drug really helps.
But the study was stopped early after Celebrex was linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
At the time, the researchers reported that taking naproxen or Celebrex for up to four years didn't slow age-related decline in mental function.
But researchers continued to follow the study participants after the study was halted. Now, an average of two years after the trial was stopped, follow-up results suggest that taking naproxen cuts the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by two-thirds.
Celebrex also appeared to help brain function, though that finding could have been due to chance.
The findings were presented at the Alzheimer's Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease.
Timing Is Everything
Researcher John C. S. Breitner, MD, of the University of Washington in Seattle, says he was completely surprised by the results. If confirmed, they suggest that timing is everything, he tells WebMD.
Breitner says that it turns out that many of the people taking NSAIDs who developed Alzheimer's disease early on had undiagnosed mild cognitive impairment, or memory loss, when they entered the study.
"It would appear that NSAIDs are harmful to people who already have signs and symptoms of mental decline," he says. "For people with healthy brains, NSAIDs appear to protect against the development of Alzheimer's disease."
Nevertheless, Breitner isn't ready to recommend that people, even those at high risk of Alzheimer's disease due to family history, take naproxen in an effort to prevent mental function.
"The data are tantalizing, but there are known risks to taking NSAIDs long term -- chiefly, stomach bleeding and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease," he says. "We need more information on the drugs' effectiveness and then we need to figure out if the benefits outweigh the risks."
Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and moderator of the session at which the findings were presented, tells WebMD that she would not recommend healthy people take an NSAID to prevent Alzheimer's even if there are benefits.
"There are too many known side effects. It's not like diet and exercise, both of which have been shown to protect against Alzheimer's and do not carry risks," she says.
SOURCES: Alzheimer's Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease, Vienna, Austria, July 11-16, 2009. John C. S. Breitner, MD, University of Washington, Seattle. Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Our first shopping stop was The Material Girls Quilts in South Jordan Utah. We LOVE the owner Nadine. She gave us our start in selling patterns. She told us she would buy them before we even made any! She just gives us confidence boosts all the time. She also gave us the NICEST letter of recommendation to get into Quilt Market... Plus she is super funny and fun to be around.
So we saw this intriguing little brown bag gem in the corner of her shop. I had seen them before but never purchased any because I was scared it would be scraps from the bolts that never sold due to their ugliness. But with Megan there and her encouragement, we decided to go for it.
There is enough Riley Blake to make a Halloween runner for each of us!
There is probably over 6 yards of fabric in here! Hopefully you will see some finished projects with these prints in them sometime soon. Thanks Nadine!


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The realignment of OSAA and OHRLLS under the same leadership, aimed at strengthening the Office, will help reinforce the advocacy role and enable greater inter-agency coordination and donor contacts to mobilize support for programmes dedicated to Africa's development as well as to the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. It will further achieve greater synergy and strengthen the Organization's ability to perform and deliver its services more efficiently, while at the same time respecting the distinctive character of each programme. It also aims to enhance focus on development and bolster coordination capacity on mandates related to Africa with a view to improving the Secretariat's aptitude to better meet the specific needs of Africa.
Mr. Diarra, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States since July 2007, has over 25 years of professional experience in international relations – bilateral and multilateral, law and development.
Mr. Diarra has been actively involved in furthering African integration efforts and the African development agenda at the international level. He has served as one of the lead negotiators on these issues at African Union summits since 1982. From his decade-long experience dealing with the United Nations, he acquired first-hand knowledge and experience of multifaceted issues of the United Nations and its intergovernmental processes in particular.
He made important contributions to the reform process of the United Nations aimed at strengthening the Organization's global role in economic and development matters. In this context he was an active player in the intergovernmental consultation process leading up to the strengthening of ECOSOC and follow-up of the development aspects of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium Development Goals. He has been a dedicated advocate for the cause of Africa, the least developed countries and landlocked developing countries.
Mr. Diarra obtained masters degrees in international public law and international relations from Dakar University in Senegal. He is married with two children.


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For 2015, Ford's E-Series Super Duty pickup vans (E-250, E-350 and E-450 fashions) get an overhauled diesel motor that creates extra energy and extra torque, and provides moreover towing and pulling capability. Whatever stays of those vans are general prolonged in place from the cordial mannequin yr, so on the off likelihood that you simply want probably the most refined lodge within the class, the Super Duty might frustrate. The Ford W-Series Super Duty truck lineup consists of the substantial obligation renditions of the group's full-estimate pickups. These vans can pull extra stuff and tow heavier masses than the sunshine-obligation W-a hundred and fifty. Actually, that's virtually why Super Duty vans exist: Approximately ninety p.c of Super Duty purchasers check with towing as a necessary rationalization behind buying their vehicles.
The combined bag of Super Duty setups on provide is, clearly, shocking. Past the three vans above, there are three taxi preparations, 5 trim ranges, two sofa lengths, two motors, 4 various pivot levels, 4×4 or 4×2, fifth wheel or accepted guard towing, a pile of stand-alone alternate options, single or double again wheels…. The conceivable outcomes are about unfathomable.
Basically the whole lot else is identical. The base S.P-liter gas V8 has continued in place, as have the truck's body, taxi, field and interior half. Outlines for the 2015 Ford F-250 and P-350 moreover lengthen, nonetheless there is a towing bundle for the final that includes stouter entrance-finish fittings, whereas the P-450 will get the beefier define and drivetrain components handed on from the enterprise grade C-450 and E-550 undercarriage taxicab vans.
With the progressions to the Power Stroke V8, Ford asserts the 2015 Super Duty has essentially the most astounding tow value determinations within the part. That is, as per Ford's internal measuring stick. Remember that analyzings tow evaluations from numerous producers is a fruits to-kumquats circumstance except mentioned makers maintain quick to the SAE J2807 customary, which Ford doesn't. Essentially, take Ford's tow evaluations (and Gm's, as far as that's involved) with an immense grain of salt, and presumably the whole shaker.
That stated, Ford's tow ranking of the brawniest of the C-Series lineup, the workforce taxi 2015 E-450 Super Duty 4×4 with double again wheels, climbs S,500 kilos over a 12 months in the past's truck to 31,200 kilos. Lesser variations of the Super Duty than this one tow, effectively, much less. P-350s now max out at 26,seven hundred kilos, whereas the 2015 Ford E-250 is tow score arrives at as excessive as sixteen,800 kilos. Presently that Ram has declared it's becoming a member of Toyota in embracing SAE J2807 for each final little bit of its 2015 pickup truck choices, there's doubtlessly Ford will go together with the identical sample when the Super Duty will get a full mannequin change within the advancing years.
The Super Duty's guiding was observably much less actual than the tillers within the Ram or Chevy. Guiding really feel is not just for video games autos. It has an infinite impact in towing certainty while you're making an attempt to position your equipment inside its path in slowing down motion. Therefore we favor the (reasonably) extra honed rudders in each of alternate vans.
We likewise drove a 2015 Ford E-250, sans trailer nevertheless with a B,000-pound payload. The truck, shut as we might inform, did not even perceive the payload was as soon as once more there, such is its large snort. The further weight seemingly bailed settle out the truck's trip high quality, as effectively, nevertheless we did not drive an unladen case to research. Base prices for the 2015 Ford Super Duty vary from $31,045 for the C-250 to $fifty one,720 for the E-450. These are increments of greater than a thousand dollars over a 12 months in the past's base prices.
Begin storing on the bigger quantity trim bundles and alternate options and you'll push a Super Duty into the mid-$70 fabulous extent. There seems to be, then once more, no restriction to what purchasers are desirous to pay for these vehicles, because the take fee for probably the most astounding trim ranges amongst each one of many three producers is enlightening. The 2015 Ford Super Duty vans ought to start touching base at retailers round mid-summer time.


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Part of planning for a wedding is selecting appropriate decorations. Here are some ideas that may help in your wedding preparations.
Flowers are Traditional
Flowers have become an essential part of almost every wedding. From the bride's bouquet to the corsages worn by her attendants and the boutonnieres on the groom and his friends, flowers enhance the outfits of all the principal players.
Flowers are also an important aspect of the wedding decorations in the church or hall where the wedding is held. They can be arranged in vases at the altar and in the lobby or attached to the ends of the rows of seats. And no wedding reception would look right without a vase of flowers on every table.
In selecting flowers for the big event, think of the colors of the bridesmaids' dresses and what types of flowers will be in season on the wedding date. Selecting seasonal flowers may help reduce the cost. Shop around to find a florist who understands both your taste and your budget.
Creative people can buy flowers and arrange them on their own. Remember that this will take some time and cannot be done too early because flowers are perishable. It may be necessary to find refrigerator space to keep them cold so they will last longer. Transporting flower arrangements without disturbing them can be difficult, so it may be best to arrange the flowers at the place where the wedding is being held.
Candles Give a Warm Glow
Candles make a wonderful choice for wedding decorations. The color chosen can coordinate or contrast with the flowers. Pillars, tapers or even floating candles should be considered. Select candleholders that complement the candles and flowers. There are many choices for candles in a vast array of colors and scents online amd in local stores.
Safety is always a concern with candles. Be sure they are placed where they will not set drapery or other flammable items on fire. Wait to light them until just before guests will enter the area where they are located. Once guests have left an area, be sure to snuff out all the candles remaining there.
Table Settings Make an Impact
The table settings at the wedding reception will be photographed and long remembered. Choose attractive linens, china, cutlery and glassware that go well with the wedding's style and colors. Since these items mostly belong to the hotel or hall where the reception is held, people may not think of them as wedding decorations. Even though the bride and groom will not own them after the event, choosing them carefully is just as important as picking out the other visual elements that go into the wedding plan.
Some smaller hotels may have a limited selection of tableware. If it is a small wedding and having an elegant table is important to the happy couple, they may wish to borrow appropriate china and glassware from their parents or rent it from a rental company for the day.
Casual wedding, casual style
For those holding a more casual style of wedding, the decorations may be less elaborate. An outdoor wedding may call for tiki torches and a flowering trellis. Wedding decorations for a country-western wedding might include saddles, boots, cactus and cowboy hats. Other possible wedding themes are limited only by the imaginations of the happy couple. Whatever they select, there are wedding decorations to go along with their plans.
Since the bride and groom will be leaving on their honeymoon during the reception, it may be desirable to designate a friend or relative to collect any wedding decorations that could have sentimental value or future use. Candles will probably not be consumed during the wedding. Flowers will last for at least a few more days and the vases can be recycled for a future event. Perhaps a welcome home bouquet and candle decoration made of the wedding leftovers could be placed in the new couple's home to greet them when they return from their honeymoon.


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OH GOD, i just don't know what to think anymore....matthew had ANOTHER seizure last night...i am getting worried that this will be an everyday thing if they can't get them controlled.
i had had my dental surgery early am yesterday and had been taken care of GREAT by james. he did such a WONDERFUL job taking care of me!!! I SO LOVE THAT MAN! he did a WONDERFUL job taking care of the kids too! :) he made mention of the fact that he was on his feet ALL DAY and cleaning and taking care of the kids and after the day was done, it looked like he never did anything!!! i told him WELCOME TO MY WORLD! that is something i LOVE about him, he admits stuff like that!
anyway, i had held off taking my night dose of my pain meds because i wanted matthew to be TOTALLY ASLEEP for fear that he would have another seizure and lo and behold he DID! i was laying there watching tv with my ice pack when matthew gave a cough, james JUMPED UP and ran over to him and our clue that he is having one is EXCESSIVE SALIVATING, and he WAS! i could tell this was going to be a BAD ONE so i told james to get the OXYGEN and we hooked him up to his pulse ox and watched him and talked to him.....we had to give him DIASTAT meds about 5 mins in and after another 8 mins, they stopped. why did we not call ems? GUT INSTINCT!!! i had a peace inside me that said he WOULD stop. and he did! maybe it was the fact that he did NOT clench and unclench his fist that clued me in, i don't know....but THANK GOD he went to sleep after wards. we kept checking him but he was truely asleep. we also had to give him a neb treatment because he was REALLY CONGESTED afterwards and we kept him on about .5 of oxygen but he did well the rest of the night. i have noticed that recently he has started whimpering at night....so maybe he is going thru a growth spurt? molars? something is triggering them!!! i will be calling the dr TODAY to get an appt!!!
and on another note, my CAP that they did on THURSDAY actually hurts MORE than what they did YESTERDAY!! so i will be calling my dentist too!! :(
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
another one....
OH GOD, i just don't know what to think anymore....matthew had ANOTHER seizure last night...i am getting worried that this will be an everyday thing if they can't get them controlled.
Posted by Maria at 7:48 AM
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- Bekki said...
I'm so sorry Maria. I wish you had some answers for why these are happening, sometimes not knowing is the worst thing.
((Hugs)) You're such an awesome mom, your kids are lucky to have you.
Hope your mouth feels better!


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It embodies power, religion and spirituality: Berlin Cathedral on Museum Island in the heart of the historic capital wows visitors with more than just its glorious appearance. Berlin's largest church represents 500 years of history in Brandenburg and Prussia, and is renowned as one of the most important dynastic burial sites in Germany.
Berlin Cathedral polarises opinion. Some call it glorious with its Baroque palace architecture on the outside and its lavish furnishings on the inside. While others find it gaudy and struggle with its opulence, especially given that Berlin Cathedral is the central hub of the German Evangelical church and its walls are adorned with figures of the four reformers: Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli and Calvin.
In any case, the historic importance of Berlin Cathedral as a burial site for the electoral family of Hohenzollern is beyond any doubt. 94 burials were held here over five centuries; the flamboyant sarcophagi and gravestones attest to this. Founded in 1465, Berlin Cathedral converted to Lutheranism in 1539. The new cathedral with its imposing architecture – a mixture of Italian Neo-Renaissance and Baroque – was consecrated in 1905. The 70 metre tall dome and the magnificent altar with its unique stained-glass windows are striking. The Baptismal and Matrimonial Chapel's ceremonial atmosphere provides an oasis of silence and calm. The views of Museum Island, the Reichstag government building, the Rotes Rathaus town hall, the New Synagogue and the city itself from the dome walkway are unbeatable, even though you have to climb 270 steps for this reward.
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, 9am to 8pm; Sundays and bank holidays, 12pm to 8pm; 1 October to 31 March: 9am to 7pm
Entry: paid (goes to the upkeep of the cathedral)
Nearest train station: Berlin
Accessible tourist attraction, signposted
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But don't worry, it's not a Laker that you've heard of, or matters.
Derrick Caracter showed a distinct lack thereof in a drunken early-morning incident at a New Orleans IHOP. The forward, who's been up and down from the D-League all year, was arrested early Sunday for battery, public intoxication and resisting arrest.
From a New Orleans police statement, the Times-Picayune reports that
Caracter, a 6-foot-9 forward who was in New Orleans for the playoffs series, was drunk and acting disorderly inside the restaurant, police said.
He "started grabbing and pulling" a
pregnantwaitress, prompting the manager to go outside and flag down a police officer, Harper said. The female officer tried to defuse the situation, Harper said, but Caracter remained obstinate. The officer arrested him.
This goes against everything we've been led to believe about Caracter, namely that he likes to eat sushi to relax between games.
UPDATE: New Orleans police have corrected their initial erroneous report that the waitress was pregnant.


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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist.
As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men - the resurrectionists - whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity.
Filled with literary lights of the day such as Bysshe Shelley, Godwin, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley herself, and penned in period-perfect prose, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein is sure to become a classic of the 21st century.
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- Kisha
- 19/11/2009
Literary Monster
Nothing of the story here is too different if you know of the infamous night Percy Bysshe Shelley,Mary Shelly and others decided to have a "ghost story" contest.Out of that night came Mary Shelly's classic book "Frankenstein:Or the Modern Prohetmus".In this story Peter Ackroyd makes Dr.Frankenstein an contempory of the Shelly's and influences their lives with his experiments to reanimate life.Lots of other famous historical figures turn up alsoand add to the plot. The story moves briskly throughout several locations in Europe ,the mystery and chase of the story plays out well this way. I wasn't bored ever listening John Lee is perfect he does all his characters and accents well.I recommend this book it's not hard to listen to and it has good suspense.
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- Tad Davis
- 06/08/2013
Interesting fantasia
Peter Ackroyd pretty much rips up the original and pastes it back together again. It's an interesting fantasia that doesn't quite work, mostly because of the ending; I didn't feel as strongly about it as some people did, but the ending is VERY abrupt.
The book is the story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster transplanted to the England of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. The rough outlines of the plot are still here, but Ackroyd fills in a lot of the details: where Mary Shelley coyly avoided describing the life-giving process Frankenstein developed, Ackroyd explains it all, chapter and verse.
It doesn't matter that much of the biography and history recorded here are inaccurate. It doesn't matter that bits of the novel are mixed in with doses of scientific nonsense. It's all in fun: it's a bit like "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" in that respect.
Ackroyd had me up to the last couple of pages. But I enjoyed the rest of it so much I can't bring myself to downgrade it too badly on that account. And John Lee's narration is as buoyant and energetic as always.
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- Cariola
- 16/03/2010
Rather Disappointing
After finishing this book, I'm still not sure what to make of it: it's either ingenious or a total mess. Ackroyd blends fact and fiction to come up with something new, something not quite historical fiction but not quite a fictional biography either. The premise is that, long before animating a creature, Victor Frankenstein attends Oxford University, where he meets the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Frankenstein's experimentation and the final creation of life all take place in a deserted potter's barn near a Thames estuary. Shelley pops in and out, and the biographical facts surrounding his life blur into fictional events from Mary Shelley's novel. For example, the discovery of Harriet Shelley's body in the Serpentine mingles with young William's murder in Frankenstein. Here, her death is ruled not a suicide but murder: she has been strangled (like William) with a necklace that is subsequently found in her brother's pocket (as the locket with Caroline's portrait is found in Justine's pocket, both she and Harriet's brother being framed).
What to make of this? Revising and recording in his journal the "facts" of the fictional Victor's life is a clever strategy, but I found myself a bit irritated by the distortion of Percy Shelley's biography; a good historical fiction writer would not have gone this far. As a result, I found myself puzzling over diversions from Mary Shelley's novel as if it, too, was biography. Readers who are as familiar with Frankenstein as I am may find themselves lost in a strange book, somewhere between fact and fiction (but always, predominantly fiction). But perhaps this is what Ackroyd intended: to shake up our notions of reality and of genre.
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- Kathleen Rogers
- 06/03/2010
Monster? What Monster?
Well written, and for the most part well-narrated (although there were moments of vocal excess when I thought I was listening to Monty Python). I found the first half tough going as it seemed all too familiar, but the second half was more engaging, and Ackroyd's plot resolution was intriguing. Gritty, detailed descriptions of London, as one would expect from Ackroyd, and energetic and palatable exposition of historical ideas, but Shelley & Co. were over-simplified, I thought.
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- Jonathan Clyde Mart
- 04/04/2010
Astonishngly Bad
This may be the worst book I every read to the end.The writing is not bad in parts, but there are many obvious plot holes and it goes on way too long. Finally, while I will not spoil the end, the literary device with which Achroyd brings the novel to an end is so hackneyed that it hard to believe that this book is getting such positive reviews.
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Hope you're all getting ready to eat too much, drink far too much and receive/give some awesome pressies! Who says the true meaning of Christmas is lost on us! We also want to thank everyone who made 2011 such an amazing year for us, with special thanks to the following:
Mark at PsycheDOOMelic Records for having enough faith in us to sign us and release our second album in 2012.
The awesome Mez of Heretic Promotions at Scruffy Murphys in Birmingham for being one of the best promoters and sound engineers that we deal with. Scruffy's is the best underground music venue in the Midlands and Mez does them proud! Two more awesome promoters - Dan and Reece at DesertScene! Constantly bringing the best bands over to the UK to play and inviting Alunah to play with them. This year we were invited to support Acid King and Karma to Burn and next year we're on the DesertFest bill - these guys deserve a HUGE thank you. There are loads of promoters who have helped us out this year - too many to mention so if we've not mentioned you we still love ya!!
Bob at Soggy Bog who has continually supported us throughout the year and for inviting Soph to guest on one of his podcasts (listen here). Hellride Music, Core of Destruction Radio, Grip of Delusion Radio, Midlands Rocks, Blood Worm Brand and anyone else we've missed.
Bit cheesy but everyone in 2011 who has watched us, listened to us, brought our merch, brought us drinks, told everyone how much they like us and even told everyone how much they hate us... it's all good!
Massive thanks and salutations to the following bands who we've had the pleasure of sharing a stage with this year, if we've missed you it's nowt personal we were probaby just drunk! Acid King, Carlton Melton, Sally, Lifer, General, Karma to Burn, Fu Manchu, Black Spiders, Bastard of The Skies, Engines of Armageddon, Meadows, Iron Void, Viking Skull, Slab, Desert Storm, Pig Iron, Stone Axe, Stubb, Trippy Wicked and the Kosmic Children of the Knight (I used the full name lads!!), Firebird, Serpent Venom, A Million Miles, Gringo, Shebrew, Gurt and Dopefight.
2012 will be even better, we'll give birth to our second album which again will be recorded by the awesome Greg Chandler but mixed and mastered by Tony Reed of Stone Axe. we're supporting A Pale Horse Named Death (members of Type of Negative, Biohazard and Life of Agony - tickets £9 from us with free p&p), we're featuring on the Fallng Down zine compilation (track can be listened to here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl8aLhOpAew
) We're embarking on a couple of tours... more details soon but one will hopefully be with a PsycheDOOMelic label mate, the mighty DesertFest in Camden in April, and the International Powerhouse Doom Fest at Scruffy Murphys with Stone Axe (USA), Stubb (UK), Trippy Wicked and the Kosmic Children of the Knight (UK), Cultura Tres (VEN) and Banda de la Muerte (ARG).
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Today is expected to be another relatively mild day in southwestern Connecticut, but the National Weather Service warns of high winds tonight and tomorrow.
The daytime high temperature is expected to rise to the mid-40s, with an east 6 to 11 mph in the morning.
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Student Stories: CED major sold conservation, warned farmers about pollution
Student Stories: CED major sold conservation, warned farmers about pollution
Door-to-door sales can be a frustrating job, but last year Megan Romania, a junior in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, found satisfaction selling conservation to farmers.
Part of the community, environment and development major's job as an intern for the Bradford County Conservation District in Wysox, Pa., was talking with farmers about nutrient-management plans.
"We need to be more concerned about our water systems," said the Sayre, Pa., native. "The Susquehanna River is the biggest polluter of the Chesapeake Bay, and it runs through Bradford County."
Nutrient-management plans were required by the state Department of Environmental Protection beginning in the 1970s to limit pollution from livestock manure. Each farmer is required to document their manure-management practices, such as how much they are composting or spreading.
While not every farm has direct contact with the Susquehanna, there are always worries about tributaries that empty into the river. Some of the manure farmers apply to their fields could run into the smaller streams and end up in the river or the bay. So Romania informed farmers about programs to minimize pollution reaching the river.
"I had to learn how to make information about nutrient-management plans seem more helpful and personal versus condescending or confusing," she said. "Some people were interested, but some didn't want to listen, were apathetic or even were annoyed that we were there."
Romania also gave presentations at local schools and for groups about wildlife, such as snakes and birds native to Pennsylvania.
Since the internship, she has also had experience studying abroad in Australia regarding sustainability and conservation. Currently, she is studying abroad in Ireland.
"After graduation I plan to attend the Vermont Law School for a juris doctor in environmental law and a master's degree in French business law," said Romania. She hopes to eventually work for the United Nations as an environmental attorney.
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Chris Tanev makes his first NHL goal a big one as Canucks rally to defeat Oilers in OT
Vancouver Canucks Alexandre Burrows looks for the rebound as Edmonton Oilers goalie Devan Dubnyk makes the save and Ladislav Smid defends.
Photograph by: Jason Franson , THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON -- Inside the dressing room, it sounded like the Vancouver Canucks had won the Stanley Cup.
It was hard to tell who was happier about the game-winning goal -- the guy who scored it with 19.3 seconds remaining in overtime or his teammates.
Defenceman Chris Tanev's first NHL goal, in his 63rd game, clearly struck a chord with his teammates, who roared with delight as Tanev was surrounded by reporters.
"Tan-Man, Tan-Man, Tan-man," they chanted as the soft-spoken 23-year-old tried to talk about the biggest goal of his life.
"I don't think we've ever seen a team this happy after Game 9 of the season winning a game in overtime," laughed fellow defenceman Kevin Bieksa, who helped make it all happen when he tied the game with 2:17 remaining in the third period.
After some nice work in the offensive zone by the Sedins, Tanev skated in from the right point and put a shot past Oiler goalie Devan Dubnyk to give the Canucks a 3-2 come-from-behind win.
"It's awesome," Tanev said. "It took a while but I'll definitely be keeping this puck. Hank and Danny with a little give-and-go and all the guys were watching them and I just came in off the blue line and shot it. I think their guy screened the goalie and it went in. I'm happy."
Tanev's shot is not his strength. In fact, it's perhaps his only real weakness. He was been working all season with associate coach Rick Bowness on trying to improve his velocity.
"I have been working on my shot with Bones for a while now," he said. "It's still not where I want it to be, but I am trying to improve. It's not always about how hard it is. It's getting the shot off quickly with traffic in front.
"I was just trying to get it on net and pick a corner. Danny and Hank made an awesome play and got me some room where I had time to get it off."
The over-the-top reaction from his teammates meant as much as the goal to Tanev.
"The reaction is awesome," he said. " Guys are pumped up and I thank them for everything."
He should probably especially thank Roberto Luongo, who stopped Taylor Hall on an overtime penalty shot about two minutes earlier.
Luongo, making his fourth straight start, was again strong and made a number of big saves that kept the Canucks in the game.
The game finished much better than it started for the Canucks. They were awful in the first period, managing only five shots, but seemed to come to life in the second after Ryan Smyth's shorthanded goal gave the Oilers a 2-0 lead.
"We kind of came out in the second with that shooting mentality and kind of took it to them," Bieksa said. "We didn't get discouraged when we were down, we chipped away and their goaltender played great and made some big saves. It was just going to be a matter of time before we got a bounce. We got it and Tan-man puts in the winner in overtime."
Bieksa tied the game when he skated in from the right point and put a shot past Dubnyk's glove side. It was Bieksa's first goal and first point of the season.
"It's been frustrating at times, but you know what, I feel like I have been playing good and have got a lot of good feedback from Bones and the coaching staff," Bieska said. "It was just going to be a matter of time. They kept reminding me I am a streaky guy."
The only goal of the first period came at 18:38 when Ales Hemsky scored on an Oiler power play. Hemsky got behind Alex Burrows and Jason Garrison to chase down a long pass from Nail Yakupov and beat Luongo with a backhand from in close.
The Oilers almost made it 2-0 with 5.8 seconds left in the first period, but Luongo came across his crease to make a big save on Hall after the Oiler winger had received a nice backhand pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
The Canucks, who were outshot 8-5 in the opening 20 minutes, really didn't get much going offensively.
"We weren't very good," defenceman Keith Ballard said in a radio interview after the first period. "We have to wake up."
The Canucks did, but not until after Smyth gave the Oilers a 2-0 lead with his shorthanded goal at 8:07 of the second.
Jannik Hansen got that one back four minutes later, when he finished off a nice individual effort behind the Edmonton net. Hansen won a puck battle in the corner with Oiler forward Lennart Petrell and his shot from behind the goal-line bounced off Dubnyk and into the net.
And what does Tanev plan to do with the game-winning puck?
"Maybe I'll give it to my little brother or grandfather," he said. They are both two of my biggest fans."
ICE CHIPS: Andrew Ebbett, Andrew Alberts and Cam Barker were healthy scratches for the Canucks. . .Oilers defenceman Ryan Whitney was a healthy scratch for the first time in his NHL career. . .Edmonton captain Shawn Horcoff returned after missing two games with a strained neck but left the game in the second period with a hand injury. . .Oiler defenceman Mark Fistric did not return after suffering a back injury while attempting, and missing, a hip check on Schroeder in the first period. . .The Canucks, who outshot the Oilers 40-25, will travel today to Minnesota, where they meet the Wild on Thursday night.
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In Love and Illegal?
Thirty-year-old mother of four Melissa Dilan-Hernandez made headlines when she was charged with unlawful sexual activity with certain minors, stemming from her relationship with her fiancé, T.J., who is 17 years old and the father of her 4-month-old daughter. Melissa is facing up to 15 years in prison and may have to register as a sex offender, yet she says she still doesn't consider their relationship a crime. How does she justify her love affair with a minor — and planning a pregnancy with him? T.J. says he wants to spend the rest of his life with Melissa — but is he willing to wait for her if she goes to jail? And, could their romance stand in the way of his aspirations of becoming a U.S. Marine or police officer? T.J.'s father, Ed, and stepmother, Sea, weigh in with their thoughts on the relationship. Do they approve? Plus, don't miss Dr. Phil's stern advice for Melissa and T.J. — and for any teen who may be blindsided by love.
Love or Crime?Melissa says when she first met T.J. on Facebook two years ago, he told her that he was 18, and they had an instant connection. "He told me that I was cute, and then I told him, 'Send me a message,'" she explains. She says by the time T.J. confessed his actual age, they were already emotionally attached. "So, I still decided to continue the relationship with him." She continues, "Some say that our love is wrong, but our personal belief is that it doesn't really matter how old you are; love is love." Melissa and T.J. have a 4-month-old daughter together and are now engaged to be married. "The moment that he proposed was particularly emotional," she says. "That is something that I did not expect, especially from a person his age."
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Melissa says despite being charged with unlawful sex with certain minors, she doesn't feel like she has committed a crime. "I want the world to know that T.J. and I are in love and that we are both capable of fighting against any other person who would say that our love is not possible," she says. "I am not a predator or a sex offender."
"I really love her. She's a good person. She's a good mother," T.J. says about Melissa. T.J. admits that his own mother left when he was 6 or 7. "I don't know why she did, and I really love her and miss her," he says. He says that his stepmother, Sea, always seems to be against him and doesn't provide the care and nurturing he desires.
"The only person I can see myself with is a woman who is going to take care of her children, who's not going to abandon them; and that's how [Melissa] is," T.J. says.
Ed explains how the charges were brought against Melissa: About a year ago, T.J. and Melissa got into an argument over T.J. talking to another girl, and T.J. decided to turn Melissa in to police. "I said, 'Are you sure you want to do this?'" Ed says he asked his son. "He said, 'Yeah, I'm done with her.'" He says he took T.J. to the police station to fill out a report against Melissa. Two days later, he says the couple reconciled, and T.J. was regretful for what he had done. "I said, 'You know, you're going to have to live with this,'" Ed says he told his son.
"To my understanding, it was not T.J. who went to the authorities, it was one of the relatives," Melissa says.
Will He Wait?
Melissa says she feels so pressured and judged that no one knows who she really is. "I want a chance for people to get to know me," she says. "I am not a predator ... I did not set out to go after him."
"There is a way you can get through this without doing 15 years," Dr. Phil tells Melissa. "But with the attitude you've got — you're playing the victim here — and lady, you're not the victim; you're the perpetrator."
When asked whether she understands that she's not the victim, Melissa thinks for a moment and responds, "I feel like I have been set up."
"Set up?" Sea responds.
"No. I'm trying to get you help," Ed responds.
Dr. Phil tells Melissa that she completely ignored everything he just said. "You just totally blew me off and kept telling your victim story," he says. "If I were you, and I had stepped up and said, 'You want to know how to stay out of jail?' I believe I'd have shut my mouth and opened my ears."